What a complete div!!!
Dom
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The other thing to consider is this: what field do you work in every day? Mine is financial and accounting. No doubt I can help someone with those type of questions or challenges in my sleep since I have been using Excel in these areas for over 20 years. But...if it is an engineering, statistical, VBA question, all bets are off. I have always said that Excel is so powerful you would need and engineer, accountant, statistician, mathematician, etc. to begin to use 50% of its capabilities.
Going back to the original post ...
I'm not sure how or why you would or could do that. With the best will in the world, it is: not easy; very difficult; impossible ... you pick.I have been following and researching the competency and credibility of couple of Excel MVPs
I sure don't know what everyone's background, experience, specialist knowledge, contribution to fora, and so on, is. I focus on the Excel Forum but I have checked in on others and seen familiar names ... but I'm not following or stalking them
So, some people contribute to multiple fora, some use their MVP title, others don't, some seem able to spend countless hours answering questions and moderating. I enjoy being able to answer questions but I also gain from the answers from others, either a variation on a theme or shorter or more efficient or simply out of my league.
It's just not easy to give an objective, or even subjective, assessment of anyone's contribution ... you need a really high level and wide view of the world which I'm guessing most of us don't have. I have formed "opinions" about the "capability" of many of the people who contribute to this forum, but I'm not sure how balanced or accurate it is. Looking at their reputation points is also an indicator of their contribution in this forum but, like I said, they probably do just as much in several other fora of which I have no visibility.
From my experience of doing performance management and development for my IT support teams, it is quite clear that an individual's assessment of their performance, and that of others, doesn't always match reality ... and was often a source of dissatisfaction, no matter how much effort was put into managing expectations.
So, I think the message is: keep plugging away, develop your own knowledge and experience, and share that as much as you can in as many ways as you can ... and the gods in Microsoft may shower you with their recognition and awards.
I've been intending to share my opionion, for what it's worth, for a while ... but it's been a bit of a trial posting anything just recently, so it's had to wait.
Regards, TMS
What a good answer, I am new to the forum and have learned so much just reading other peoples problems and then studying their solutions. Here where I work, I am considered and Excel Guru because I know more them my peers, but am a long shot from know what I need or want to know. Titles are important to some people, and not to others. One thing I would like to add is the more I learn the more I realize there is to learn. So I want to say thank you to all the people who give their time on this forum. THANK YOU.
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